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Background
The Republic of Kenya is an East African country, sharing borders with South Sudan and Ethiopia in the north, Somalia in the east, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south-west and with access to the Indian Ocean in the southeast of the country.
With a population of 41.8 million people (source: Kenya facts 2014) and a GDP of US$20.6billion, Kenya is the biggest economy in eastern Africa and one of the top ten countries driving the economic growth in the continent. However, Kenya is also in the top 10 of the most unequal societies in the world, with the richest 10% owning more than 40% of the land and resources, and the poorest 10% a mere 1% (source: Pulling Apart, Facts and Figures on Inequality in Kenya).